The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 \u200cactive-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the government\u2019s deportation drive, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The \u200dUS Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the midwestern state escalates, the officials said, though it is not clear whether any of them will be sent.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to use the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces if officials in the state do not stop protesters from targeting immigration officials after a surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.<\/p>\n
Increasingly tense confrontations between residents and federal officers have erupted in Minneapolis since Renee Good, \u2060a 37-year-old mother of three, was fatally shot behind the wheel of her car by ICE officer Jonathan Ross on January 7.<\/p>\n
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said on Sunday that any military deployment would exacerbate tensions in Minnesota\u2019s largest city, where the Trump administration has already sent 3,000 immigration and US Border Patrol officers to deal with largely peaceful protests.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would be a shocking step,\u201d Frey said on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press programme. \u201cWe don\u2019t need more federal agents to keep people safe. We are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 \u200cactive-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3292,23,2483,46162,119383,36393,4801,3031,16950,6429,45744,3,5472,18223,191965,32342,8631,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-415781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alaska","tag-america","tag-ice","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-insurrection-act","tag-jonathan-ross","tag-kristi-noem","tag-los-angeles","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-national-guard","tag-news","tag-pentagon","tag-portland","tag-renee-good","tag-st-paul","tag-tim-walz","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}